THE HORRIBLE AFTERMATH AT CORINTH, MISS. ON OCTOBER 4, 1862

Two of the gruesome images recorded on October 4, 1862, by St. Louis photographer Nicholas Brown, depicting Confederate dead at Corinth, MS in front of Battery Robinette the morning after the Second Battle of Corinth, appear below. They probably will be covered -- so click on the covers if you wish to see them.

Bob Zeller, President of The Center for Civil War Photography, wrote in his essential book -- THE BLUE AND GRAY IN BLACK AND WHITE -- that in the first image, below, Col. William P. Rogers of the 2nd Texas Infantry is visible on the far left.

The man leaning on his shoulder is said to be either Col. William H. Moore of the 43rd Mississippi Infantry or Capt. George W. Foster of the 42nd Alabama Infantry.

Historian Bruce Catton, in his landmark work GRANT MOVES SOUTH, writes “A Union officer watched, fascinated, as a Texas colonel led his men straight up to the battery.

He looked neither right nor left, neither at his men or at mine, but with his eyes partly closed, like one in a hailstorm, was marching slowly and steadily upon us. This Texas colonel got clear into the battery, and died amidst the guns.”

It appears that Rogers wore that era's version of a "bulletproof" vest. General Rosencrans was touched by Rogers' bravery, directing that Rogers be buried with military honors at a marked grave even though Rogers only was a Colonel.

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